Lead DevOps Engineer

About the Role

Reporting to the Head of DevOps youll provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure platform engineering and automation while staying hands-on in delivery. The Head of DevOps owns the overall function and people leadership across our UK and Pune capabilities. Youll be the senior technical leader working alongside the engineers.

You wont lead from the sidelines. Youll be in the infrastructure pipelines and code alongside the team shaping our DevOps practice and turning good engineering principles into solutions that work in production.

Youll design and evolve secure scalable and cost-effective infrastructure keeping our platforms reliable observable and efficient. Working with engineering security and product teams youll take difficult technical challenges from design through to a stable production outcome.

If you want real technical depth with genuine leadership where you can set direction and still know whats happening under the hood this is built for you.

What Youll Do

• Own our AWS and Azure infrastructure. Youll set practical standards for security reliability scalability performance compliance cost and resource use working with architects developers security and product teams to ensure they work in the real world.
• Write and maintain the Terraform that runs our infrastructure. Build reusable modules manage state and environments and keep documentation up to date. Use the consoles to diagnose problems but make lasting changes through code review and controlled deployment.
• Get hands-on with our CircleCI pipelines creating standards practical enough to be adopted not simply written down. Embed secret detection dependency and container scanning software bills of materials code-quality checks and supply-chain controls then help teams fix the risks that matter.
• Run our production Kubernetes platforms day-to-day working directly with Argo CD Helm and container tooling to deploy upgrade optimise and troubleshoot.
• Keep a close eye on availability performance and resource consumption. Improve metrics logs dashboards and alerts so the team can spot trouble coming. When something goes wrong lead the technical response root-cause analysis and preventative actions.
• Ensure we can recover as effectively as we can run. Help maintain and test our backup resilience and disaster-recovery arrangements using Python or Bash to remove repetitive work and improve consistency.
• Mentor engineers through pairing code reviews and hands-on problem-solving. Spread knowledge share responsibility and avoid creating reliance on a single person.
• Stay curious. Run technical spikes and bring evidence when you think we should change direction. Be the practical bridge between engineering security product and the wider business grounded in what youre building and running.

What Were Looking For

•  Youve run production cloud infrastructure in practice with deep expertise in AWS or Azure and confidence in the other. Youre comfortable in the console and in the code and you understand networking identity security controls and governance.
• Youve built reusable Terraform module catalogues managed remote state and supported multiple environments accounts or subscriptions through reviewed and controlled changes.
•  Your Kubernetes experience is production-focused: deployments upgrades troubleshooting and capacity and performance. Youve used Helm and GitOps day-to-day with direct Argo CD experience strongly preferred.
• Youve designed CI/CD pipelines from scratch and implemented DevSecOps controls yourself including secrets detection dependency and container scanning SBOM generation and software supply-chain security.
•  You use Python or Bash regularly and can demonstrate tooling youve developed and maintained. You understand observability incident response root-cause analysis and production reliability.
•  Youve helped engineers grow through collaboration and shared problem-solving. You lead by example and clearly explain technical risks options and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Desirable Experience

• Terragrunt.
• CircleCI.
• Cloud cost optimisation and FinOps practices.
• Designing and testing backup resilience and disaster-recovery solutions.
• Working within a geographically distributed engineering team.

Additional Information :

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions you are provided with the following:

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost) 
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like when you like how you like. 

OTHER INFORMATION

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
• All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting references and occupational health checks. 
• Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

Who We Are:

Were NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad our software is helping to dispatch ambulances support families keep trains on the move locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us youll be helping our 3000 employees push the boundaries of whats possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments hospitals police forces housing providers local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do the more our customers can do for others. And together we make a world of difference.

Wed love your help. And well support you all the way

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time